Landscapes from Photos
Composition is the most important factor in landscapes. The most powerful images are composed as if they were abstract paintings. Roads, rivers, telephone wires, lights and clouds are all examples of compositional tools that lead your eye around a composition.
While walking through Art Miami this year, I noticed a Ed Burtynsky's photo work. The subject matter attracted me at first. He had photographed the ship graveyards in Bangladesh. Since my husband rescues ships, I was drawn immediately. Then, I walked through a few more lanes and noticed his work from across the room. Check out his aerial photos of Australia. They looked like incredible abstract paintings and they are BIG. As you get closer, you notice they are salt flats or a port with rivers running inland.
This is a great example of exquisite design taste.
This class will be examining the tools to depict space.
Some of the vocabulary will be:
Foreground, Middleground, Background
Atmospheric Effect
Balance
Directional shapes and lines
Light sources
Please bring photos of somewhere you love. I will bring extra in case.
Suggested supplies:
Sketchbook
Pencil kit
Charcoal kit
Good paper. (Bristol or stonehenge)
Your imagination
Some wonderful landscapes
William Wray
Desmond O'Hagan
Wayne Theibaud
This is someone's blog. Google his landscapes and you will see. Ahh, Wow!
Edward Hopper
See you Thursday!
Remember, Monday, March 22 (next Week)
Model in the Ballet Studio. Small fee for model.
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